Globalisation and Labour

The New 'Great Transformation'

By: Ronaldo Munck

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Paperback | 26 July 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Intellectual fashion likes to see us as consumers, but the world of production and services still needs workers. Globalization has been driven by the transnational corporations search for cheap labour, but little attention has been paid to the consequent changes in the world of work. Ronaldo Munck argues that the national period in labour history is decisively over. Now the labour movement is itself acting in a more transnational manner, with workers developing common interests and ways of organizing that transcend national boundaries. Indeed, the trade union movement could play a major role in the regulation of a global economic system now largely out of control. Munck suggests that we may be on the brink of what Karl Polanyi once called "the great transformation". The implications for workers, trade unions and their transnational corporate employers could be profound.

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Trade unions now have an existential question to answer: What is their role in the 21st century where national solutions no longer have meaning but an effective labour response to globalization still awaits theory, let alone practice? Ronaldo Munck's important new book is the best discussion yet of this major issue. There is only one important question in politics - how to make the world fair, democratic and peaceful. This book is a major contribution to answering that question and should be read by all who believe that working people should have some say over how the 21st century is shaped. * Denis MacShane, MP *
This book will be a basic reference work for the next decade. For labour organizers and educators, students and academics, it is going to be at the centre of debate on international labour and labour internationalism! * Peter Waterman, author of Globalization, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms *
A truly global perspective on 'globalisation', combining sensitive critical discussion of competing theories with a wealth of information on trends in work and labour struggle around the world. * Richard Hyman, London School of Economics *
This is an important book. Ronaldo Munck has one core theme - the centrality of labour to the project of economic globalisation. Here under sharp focus are the key issues being faced by a global labour movement looking hard at its future. * Stuart Howard, Assistant General Secretary, International Transport Workers Federation *

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